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• n  loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
• n  low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers
• n  low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens

• Moehringia mucosa
• Moehringia lateriflora

News & Articles

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• Reintroduction experiments give new hope for plant on brink of extinction
  A critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a plant ecologist. Although it used to occur all along the west coast, from San Diego to Washington state, this wetland plant with delicate white flowers had dwindled to one population in a boggy wetland in San Luis Obispo County.
  March 18, 2014 - Science Daily
• Reintroduction experiments give new hope for a plant on the brink of extinction
  ( University of California - Santa Cruz ) A critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a UCSC plant ecologist and her students. Although it used to occur all along the west coast, from San Diego to Washington state, this wetland plant with delicate white flowers had dwindled to one population in a boggy wetland in San ...
  March 18, 2014 - EurekAlert!
• Bringing plant back from the brink of extinction
  A critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort ( Arenaria paludicola ) is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a UC Santa Cruz plant ecologist and her team of undergraduate students.
  March 18, 2014 - UC Newsroom